The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-06-29

bitious of the honor, but is unwilling to
ernbarrass the President by becoming an
active candidate. Those who think he will
be appointed are selecting his successor as
Secretary of the Interior. Judge Manning
of Louisiana, now Minister to Mexico, is
mentioned as possible nominee. Senator
George of Mississippi is also ambitious, and
is said to have the entire bar ofsMississippi
behind him The name of Howell Ed
mund Jackson of Nashville, Tenn, the
present United States Circuit Judge of the
Sixth Judicial District, is also prominently
mentioned.
Brooks, alias Maxwell, the murderer of
Preller, is to be hanged. The Supreme
Court refused to reverse the decision of
the court below. The prisoner was nnOffi-
cialIy rotified by his attorneys June Goth,
and was very much detected, and said his
trial was a farce. Brooks counsel will
now, it is said, move for a rehearing of the
case, and if that fails an attempt will be
made to get it before the United States Su-
preme Court on constitutional points. The
date for Brooks execution is fixed for
July 18th.
The officers of Plymouth Church have
agreed to elect the Rev. Charles Stowe, the
son of Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe, and
the nephew of the dead preacher, as the
pastor of the church.
Among the passengers who landed at
Queenstown from New York, June 18th,
was young man named Peter Troy, on
whom was found a number of manWfac-
turers' squares, some of which had long
fuse attached, and several roman candles.
The police took him into custody on the
charge of having explosives in his posses
sion The accused said that he got them
from friend in America. The police do
not attach much Importance to this arrest,
but in view of the approaching jubilee
there is a great scare, and the police are
unusually vigllant.
A sensation has been caused in French
high life by the successful kidnapping of
Countess Campos, recently divorced from
the Due de la Tore. The kipnappers wore
masks, and seized the Countess as she was
walking in the Bots de Boulogne. They
Guided pursuit. The present whereabouts
of the lady is unknown, except to her cap
tors, who managed completely battle their
prisoners friends, as well as the police.
The Duke is the son of the late Marshal
s;errano, of Spain. The Spanish Embassy
have instituted an energetic search for the
lady.
The "Nord Deutsche Zeitung' denies the
assertion of the Temps" that Germany is
joining England to actively intervene in
tha oil
will not take the initiative in Bulgaria, al
though she could not refuse her services if
required by Russia for the purpose of end
ing the present complications.
In the Reichstag, Berlin, June 10Th, the
sugar bill passed a second reading, in the
form recommended by the committee, ex-
cept the clause referring to the tax on beet
root and the bounty on the expectation of
raw sugar, which the committee restored.
The Government assented to the restora-
lion of the clauses.
Donovan, the jumper, has arrived at
Clifton, England, June 18th. If he can
elude the police there he intends to leap
from the parapet of the suspension bridge,
290 feet. Since its construction twenty
three persons jumped from this bridge.
Only one survived.
John Bright has written to Gladstone an
apology for inaccurately quoting his
speech The letter concludes as follows:
Il grieve that cannot act with you as IN
years past, but my judgment and con-
science forbid it. If I have said word
that seems unfriendly or harsh, | will ask
you to forgive it"
Advices from India, June 10th. say that
500 men of the garrison at Herat mutinied
on the 9th. A short, sharp fight ensued,
in which thirty loyal and fifty rebel troops
were killed. The mutineers fed, but most
Of them were captured. The leaders of the
revolt were sent to Cabui.
The statement that the earthquake had
visited places in the Department of Haute
Marine, France, June 18th, is erroneous.
Shocks were felt at La Roche sur Yur, in
La Vendee, and the people were frightened
into temporary panic.
At a meeting of the Dukes of Coburg and
Edinburgh recently at Berlin, it was de-
cided not to depart from the legal line of
succession.
Advices from Burmah, June 10Th, say
that severe fighting took place at Kyoup
Sidoung Sunday last, and 1915 Daicoits
were killed.
The First Chamber of the Diet of Hesse
has rejected the bill legalizing cremation.
The bill previously had been passed by the
Second Chamber.
Schenden, celebrated landscape painter,
has Just died at Dusseldorf
The police of Berlin have prohibited the
circulation of the Chicago "Workmen's Ga
zette."
Chicago will contribute a silver seWice
10 the new cruiser soon to be tested at
New York.
A demented man named Bourglay, liv-
ing near Meriden, Conn, is supposed to
be the heir to an estate In France.
The Governor of New York has signed
the bill prohibiting the use of stoves in
railroad cars.
The so-called Perfectionists have revived
their peculiar religious services at Cincin-
natl